Ribbon Cutting Ceremony~ Pocomoke City Police Department

Requesting your special attention.........

RIBBON CUTTING

The Pocomoke City Police Department

will be having their ribbon cutting ceremony

Today....

Friday ~ June 22, 2012

1:00 PM

Please join them at their new location on

Market Street in Pocomoke City, Maryland

NASA Rocket Successfully Launched From Wallops Flight Facility

A NASA rocket carrying seventeen educational experiments was successfully launched at 6:40 a.m. today from the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

The experiments built by university instructors and students from across the country were developed through programs conducted with the Colorado and Virginia Space Grant Consortia. The programs are designed to provide participants an introduction in building small experiments that can be launched on sounding rockets.

The two-stage Terrier-Improved Orion suborbital sounding rocket carried the experiments to an altitude of 73 miles before impacting into the Atlantic Ocean off the Virginia coast. The experiments have been recovered and will be returned this morning to the program participants at Wallops so they can begin their data analysis.

The next launch from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility is currently scheduled for no earlier than July 20.

Pictured: A NASA rocket launched from the Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island Thursday morning at 6:40 AM.

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From The Worcester County Sheriff's Office

WORCESTER COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE

PRESS RELEASE

On June 20, 2012 around 8:00 pm Deputies from the Worcester County Sheriff’s Office were dispatched to near the Greene Turtle in West Ocean City. The reports were that an intoxicated person had wandered into the road and was lying in the roadway. When Deputies arrived they met with Karen Pledger 32 years of age from Delmar Md. who was very intoxicated and belligerent. Ms. Pledger was arrested for disorderly conduct and transported to the Worcester County Sheriff’s Office. At the office Ms. Pledger was processed and released on a criminal citation for disorderly conduct. Ms. Pledger was released to the care and custody of a male friend who had come to the Sheriff’s Office to give Ms. Pledger a ride home. Ms. Pledger became irate with the male and began to throw pieces of paper at him, and eventually threw a pen. Ms. Pledger was arrested again in the parking lot for assault. Ms. Pledger resisted the arrest and was eventually placed into custody once again. Ms. Pledger was later transported to the District Court Commissioner in Snow Hill and was released with a trial date of July 31, 2012 at 9:00 am in the Snow Hill District Court.

On 06/12/2012 at 0300 Worcester County Sheriff's Office Deputies received a call in reference to a disabled vehicle. The Deputies responded to the area and made contact with the defendant, Victor Evans II 22 years of age, of Temperancville Va. who was walking on the roadway attempting to purchase gasoline.
Upon the Mr. Evans returning to his car, Deputies observed marijuana and CDS paraphernalia in the vehicle. The Mr. Evans was placed under arrest and charged with, Possession of Marijuana, and Possession of CDS Paraphernalia. Mr. Evans was taken before the District Court Commissioner, where he was released on his own recognizance.

On 06/16/2012 at approximately 1750 hours, Worcester County Sheriff’s Office Deputies arrested Jeremy Wayne Snyder, 22, of Easton, Pennsylvania for a District Court Arrest Warrant issued on 05/29/2012 for Rape-Second Degree. Snyder was later taken before a District Court Commissioner and held at the Worcester County Detention Center on $25,000 bond.

On 06/16/2012 at approximately 1750 hours, Worcester County Sheriff’s Office Deputies arrested James McKinley Brown, 49, of Willards, Maryland for (4) District Court Arrest Warrants. Mr. Brown is being charged with Burglary-Second Degree, and Theft-$1,000 to $10,000 for the first warrant issued on 05/05/2012. Mr. Brown is also being charged with Burglary-First Degree and Fourth Degree for the second warrant issued on 08/06/2011. Mr. Brown’s also being charged with Burglary-First Degree and Fourth Degree, along with MDOP-Less than $500. Mr. Brown’s fourth warrant was issued on 08/29/2011 for Assault-Second Degree. Mr. Brown was later taken before a District Court Commissioner and held on $15,000 bond for each of the first three warrants and released on his personal recognizance for the fourth warrant. Mr. Brown has two additional warrants through Wicomico County and a detainer was sent from Baltimore City Police Department for Violation of Parole. Mr. Brown is currently held at the Worcester County Detention Center Pending Trial.

Soroptimists Mark 60 Years of Service

HAPPY 97TH BIRTHDAY TO BEAULAH BAYLIS and CONGRATULATIONS to the Pocomoke Soroptimist Club on 60 yearof service in the Pocomoke area !!

Written by

Bill Kerbin

POCOMOKE CITY -- The Pocomoke Soroptimist Club marked 60 years of service to the Pocomoke City area at a special banquet and ceremony on June 11. A major part of the celebration was the club's observance of the 97th birthday of Beulah Baylis, the only charter member who is still active.

Organized in 1952 with 22 members, the club became Pocomoke's first service club composed entirely of business and professional women. Very soon after the club's formation it took on a major project to meet the needs of the senior citizens in the local community.

PHOTO/Lynn Lang, Pres. of Pocomoke Soroptimists (standing) with Beaulah Baylis, the only charter member

Within three years, the members purchased the large Market Street home from the Hartley Stevens heirs. Hartley Hall, as it was named, became a home for the aged. In providing assisted living services, the home was considered ahead of its time. The home was converted to meet the requirements of a nursing home. With the united efforts of the members and the support of the community, the building was paid off in five years.

Then, in 1979, when the home could no longer meet state requirements, a new 50-bed facility, still under the name of Hartley Hall, was constructed. A new wing was later added to enlarge the home. Still involved in the home, the Soroptimist Club has a member on the board.

Advancing to the past decade, the club members saw a need for more space at Samaritan Shelter. When they learned in 2006 that 350 women and children had been turned away from Samaritan Shelter because of space, the club, now with 23 members, felt that they had to help. The following year they started the Samaritan Shelter Capital Campaign to build a wing for women and children.

Receiving a $10,000 grant from Soroptimist International early in the campaign, the club was able to raise $120,000 in cash and more than $80,000 in donated materials and labor. A little over two years later the shelter was completed and an open house was held. Since the wing opened it has been a shelter to 151 women and 282 children.

The members have also been involved in a number of other projects during the club's tenure. They have been involved in elementary, middle, and high school projects as well as the Samaritan Shelter and Relay for Life. They have provided scholarships for women and girls through fundraising efforts throughout those 60 years. They also honor those who volunteer and women who go above and beyond to help others better their lives.

As a member and leader in the club Beulah has served as president, vice-president, delegate, international liaison, and committee chair for many projects during her 60 years of membership. She attends meetings regularly and still serves as a liaison between the Pocomoke club and its Friendship Club in Finland.

She was married in 1932 to Preston Baylis and they shared their lives for 57 years until his death in 1989. The couple owned and operated a feed store and later Beulah worked as a proof operator in the baking industry until her retirement in 1977.

Other charter members included: Ruth Callahan, Hilda Craigmile, Mary Coleburn, Doris Duncan, Anna Davis, Juanita Harman, Joyce Hoffman, Virginia Hall, Grace Kirby, Elizabeth Kelley, Charlotte Lewis, Gladys Peacock, Myrtle Polk, Nannie Hughes, Vergie Reid, Annie Ross, Madeline Ross, Any Schoolfield, Ida Vincent, Margaret Watson and Alice Young, all of whom are deceased.

The Pocomoke City Lions Club and Rotary Club and the Soroptimists of Accomack County helped the local Soroptimists mark their anniversary.

Current members are: Lynn Lang, president; Denise Walter, vice president; Shelly Mitchell, recording secretary; Crystal Webster, corresponding secretary; Darlene Dean, chaplain; Beulah Baylis, Dorothy Bodley, Betty Burgert, Donna Byrd, Patty Dean, Amy Mason, Dawn Mason, Kathy Mason, Deidra Mears, Terrie Mullis, Gloria Pennewell, Margaret Pilchard, Carolyn Thompson, and Kathy Trumble.

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Pocomoke City Police Dept. ~ Links To Photos

OH, Happy Day!! The Pocomoke City Police Department is now totally working from their new facility on Market Street!! (oh, this brings happy tears to my eyes)

And to think all these photos I've taken through the months of the renovations taking place were because my husbands support and because of a Christmas gift from my husband. No, not my brand new camera but a signed copy of the book "Why Do We Kill?" ( written by former Baltimore Homicide Detective Kelvin Sewell, now Chief of Police for Pocomoke City, and Stephen Janis)

The fact that I was able to carry out my plans in providing the public with photos as the renovations progressed is to due my very dear friend Councilman Malloy....he knew I was on a mission and even through my stupid mistakes, has laughed at me.

I am very excited for Chief of Police Kelvin Sewell and his department and for the city of Pocomoke.

Listed below are links to photos I have taken along the way..... and there are so many more that I did not post. I hope they work.


http://thepocomokepubliceye.blogspot.com/2012/01/whats-new-with-new-police-department.html


http://thepocomokepubliceye.blogspot.com/2012/02/police-station-in-progress.html



http://thepocomokepubliceye.blogspot.com/2012/03/another-visit-new-pocomoke-city-police.html


http://thepocomokepubliceye.blogspot.com/2012/04/new-soon-to-be-pocomoke-city-police.html


http://thepocomokepubliceye.blogspot.com/2012/04/finishing-touches-being-put-on-pocomoke.html


http://thepocomokepubliceye.blogspot.com/2012/06/pocomoke-police-department-nearing.html

Don't forget the Ribbon Cutting Ceremony
Friday @ 1:00 PM

TIME MACHINE Preview ... Heiress Gives Up Society Life For Farming Near Princess Anne.

　
It's 1905 and an heiress from a prominent Maryland family chooses to give up her fashionable life in Baltimore, closes her home there, "boarding up its exterior to protect its rich furniture, works of art, and fine linen, placed the family silverware in storage and decided to go to Princess Anne" to run the 600 acre farm she had inherited.

Read much more about it this Sunday on The Pocomoke Public Eye!
　

　
　
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THE SPCA EASTERN SHORE VIRGINIA


SATURDAY JUNE 23, 2012
8:00 am until NOON
ONLEY, VIRGINIA

(rain date June 30)

......Thank you for helping our
cats and our dogs.....

Accomack County Heath Dept. Urges Precaution During Extreme Heat

With the daytime heat index expected to reach or exceed 105 degrees over the next couple of days, it becomes even more important that people follow recommendations to protect themselves from the extreme heat.

According to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, in 2011 there were 10 heat related deaths in Virginia.

"During times of excessive heat, people need to pay attention and take additional precautions," says Henry Kurban, Director of the Eastern Shore Health District. "According to our statistics, almost 31 percent of hyperthermia cases, which were related to extreme heat, involved individuals who were engaging in outside activity such as gardening," added Kurban. "26 percent of hyperthermia cases were individuals who were inside without air conditioning."

One of the most important precautions people should take is to schedule or reschedule activities and outdoor work during the coolest parts of the day. In the summer, sunlight exposure is greatest between 10:00 AM and 4:00 PM.

Additional steps that can be taken to protect yourself against heat related illnesses are:

-Staying cool in an air conditioned area. Take a cool shower or bath. Consider a trip to the store or a local library or visit a friend with air conditioning. Spend at least two hours per day in air conditioning significantly reduces the chances of heat related illness. When temperatures reach the upper 90s or above, a fan may not prevent heat related illness.

-Drink plenty of fluids, 2-4 glasses of cool fluids each hour. To replace salt and minerals lost from sweating, drink fruit juice or a sports beverage during exercise or when you have to work outside. However, talk to your doctor first if you are on a fluid-restricted diet or medications or a low salt diet.

-Avoid sunburn and wear light clothing. Sunburn limits your body's ability to keep itself cool and causes loss of body fluids. Use sunscreen with a higher SPF. Lighter-weight clothing that is loose fitting and light colored is more comfortable during extreme temperatures. Use a hat to keep the head cool.

-Give your body a break as the heat wave can be stressful. Limit physical activity until your body adjusts to the heat.

-Never leave children or pets in cars. Temperatures inside a car can reach more than 150 degrees quickly, which could result in a heat stroke or death.

-Use the "buddy" system if you are working outside. If you are working outside and suffer a heat-related illness, you could become confused or could lose consciousness. Therefore, make sure someone else knows of your plans.

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Pocomoke City Police Department- Making the Move

Landscaping 6.19.12
While the Pocomoke City Police Department continues to settle into their new headquarters on Market Street the "beautification project" proceeds out front.

By the way, it looks GREAT without those shrubs!!
Don't forget the ribbon cutting ceremony on Friday at 1:00!

Accomack Co. Board of Supervisors Meeting Tonight

By Connie Morrison
Tonight the Accomack County Board of Supervisors will consider a resolution concerning the distribution of funding appropriated for fire and rescue services.

In April, the Board of Supervisors voted to scrap the variable district-by-district taxation for fire operations, and replace it with a flat 3.5 cent increase to real estate tax rates, and a flat 5 cent increase to personal property tax rates. Although the Board voted to appropriate all of the revenue from these increases to fire and rescue funding, it did not specify how that revenue was to be divided among the 15 approved fire and rescue companies.

In the past, the Board took the revenue collected in each fire and rescue district, and divided it evenly among the companies within the district. The new funding scheme applies the same tax rates across the county, and the resolution that will be considered by the Board tonight would divide that county-wide revenue equally among the 15 companies.

The Board meeting is 5:00 p.m. at the County Administration building.

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MOVING.....The Pocomoke City Police Department

Oh, who said the landscaping wouldn't be ready?? It's only Tuesday and you can be sure the front of the new Pocomoke Police Department location will be completed! Compared to the extreme work inside this is a piece of cake - unless you are the person in charge of all the back breaking planting.

I hope many of you will be able to drop by and see for yourselves how amazing the inside of the new station looks. I took my first photo here on January 20, 2012 and have followed the progress at two week intervals ever since (hit or miss a few)

Congratulations to Chief Sewell and his department. What a welcomed relief to walk into your work place and find it bright, spacious and all on one floor. Personally, I can not remember another time in Pocomoke City history that this new headquarters could be more needed or deserved.

Thank you to each and everyone in the Pocomoke Police Department for your kindness. You just can't imagine how I am looking forward to seeing all of your in your new offices.

Ribbon Cutting Ceremony

Friday, June 22, 2012
1:00 PM

Truck and Tractor Pulling This Weekend

The Great Pocomoke Fair Presents

Lucas Oil Pro-Pulling League

Truck & Tractor Pulling

Photos from 2011

Pocomoke Fairgrounds

Pocomoke City, Maryland

Visit The Delmarva Discovery Center This Weekend

Opening Soon.......

The New Pocomoke Restaurant

Saturday, June 16, 2012

Watch for the opening date of the new restaurant in downtown Pocomoke City.
It's hard to believe that I have been taking photographs of this spot located on the Pocomoke River since December 2011 - when ground was first turned over to begin the foundation work.

The kitchen appliances have been delivered and are ready to be installed. Tables and chairs are there and the bar is just about completed!

In case you missed the photos of the beautiful landscaping that now surrounds the restaurant follow this link: http://thepocomokepubliceye.blogspot.com/2012/06/new-pocomoke-restaurantjust-little-more.html

Landscaping was provided by Douglas Guns, Superintendent of the Winter Quarters Golf Course, and his crew. Douglas Guns and his crew, along with the assistance of some wonderful, hardworking people from Pocomoke High School, are responsible for the beauty in the Mini Park on the corner of Second Street and Market Street in downtown Pocomoke City.

Stayed tuned for an opening date! The wait is almost over........

Make Way For The New Pocomoke City Police Department

There's going to be plenty of hustle-bustle between the old Pocomoke City Police Dept. on Second Street and their new location on Market Street this week!

And have no fear! I'm quite sure those ugly, over grown shrubs from the previous landscaping will be transformed into another work of pleasant greeneries.

I will provide links later that go back to the first days of renovations in the former body shop building.

I will also provide any updates. Stay tuned! This is an exciting time for so many!

Girdletree Vol. Fire Co., Inc. Gives Back To Their Community

Girdletree, Maryland

Worcester County Department of Recreation & Parks (WCRP) is excited to announce the newest park site that will be built in Girdletree. The local contractor, Paul W. Jones & Son of Girdletree will begin the site work required for the new Girdletree Neighborhood Park in May 2012.

The three acre site was donated to the county by the Girdletree Fire Department to develop a neighborhood park. The future park will include a playground comprised of two adjoining sections, one for young children ages 2-5 and another for youth ages 6-12, a pavilion with grills and picnic tables, and a parking lot.

Earthwork at the park got underway recently and will continue through early summer in preparation for construction of the new park equipment, which will begin this fall.

Photo/Girdletree Vol. Fire Co,Inc.

For more information about the Girdletree Park, contact Parks Superintendent Bill Rodriguez at 410-632-3173 or wrodriguez@co.worcester.md.us

TIME MACHINE ... An Eastern Shore Banquet!

(Reader-friendly viewing of newspaper archives material)

January, 1914

(The Denton Journal)

A Notable Banquet In Prospect

From The Baltimore Sun

The board of governors of the Eastern Shore Society have perfected plans for the first annual dinner, which will be given at the hotel Rennet on January 21. The menu has been arranged with a view of selecting those dishes for which the Eastern Shore counties are famous and nearly every dish served will carry the name of the county it represents. Here it is:

Selected Somerset Oysters.

Tomato bisque, Caroline County Style.

Wicomico Celery.

Salted Nuts, Terrapin, Dorchester County Style.

Queen Anne Filet of Beef.

Mushroom Sauce, Cecil County Peas.

Broiled Young Chicken, Kent County.

Worcester Sweet Potatoes Grilled.

Old Talbot Ham, Hearts of Lettuce.

Old Fashioned Ice Cream, Cakes, Coffee. Cigars, Cigarettes.

Eastern Shore Beaten Biscuit.

Beaten Biscuit will be imported direct from the Shore. The oysters will come from the waters of Somerset, while down in Kent they broil chicken as on one else can. Then there is the genuine diamond-back terrapin. It is said that in the board meeting there was considerable competition among the county vice-presidents as to which county the claiming of the terrapin should go. No one disputed the claim of Caroline to the tomato, for she grows more than any two counties put together; nor was there much dispute about the sweet potatoes, for the southern counties on the "Shore" produce the best that reach the city markets. Cecil took the petit peas, but Somerset, Dorchester, Kent, and Talbot all thought their terrapin the best.

A committee has been appointed to look after speakers and they will all be Eastern Shoremen. Lyn R. Meekins, of Dorchester, will be the toastmaster.

　　

August, 1887

(The Denton Journal)

Maryland Cooking

(Excerpts)

(Quoting a New York Times correspondent.)

In Maryland one of the roads to Paradise begins in the kitchen and ends in the dining-room. Nowhere in the world do people as a class live better. They are born to good eating, and the cultivation of the appetite becomes a second nature.

The choicest things of life flourish here with a luxuriance that few, if any sections of the country can match.

... Cantaloupe, oysters, soft crabs, trout, rail birds, luscious peaches just plucked, and an indescribable watermelon fresh from the vine!

Good eating is so infectious in the State that it pervades politics. In one of the counties, Wicomico, the campaign is invariably opened in the spring by a great turtle dinner. All the candidates and politicians and district leaders come together in a love feast of turtle and politics. They sit around on stools and fences eating and talking and laughing booms and courting friendships. The affair lasts an entire day, and after it is over the candidates proceed to slaughter one another instead of turtle. Oyster roasts are features of all large campaigns. Several dozen bushels of oysters are roasted in one great fire and every man, equipped with an oyster knife, helps himself. Good dinners are also numerously used in a political way, and many a boom had its fruitful origin in well cooked food, flavored with rare old wines.

A year or so ago the best restaurant here, and all in all the best in the south, imported a staff of high-salaried New York cooks. The arrangement lasted less than a week. By that time the guests had asked for a return to Maryland dishes, for to a Marylander the subtle charm of home cooking is the greatest glory of the ages.

　

March, 1957

With the dualization of the nine mile stretch of U.S. 13 from just north of Princess Anne to Salisbury completed, plans were in the works to dualize the stretch from Pocomoke City to Princess Anne. By-passes for Pocomoke and Princess Anne were also being planned. 1956 saw the completion of a new railway overpass near Pocomoke that replaced a dangerous Route 13 grade crossing.

Footnote: Digging out tons of gravel for the overpass created a quite sizable man-made body of water, perhaps about a quarter of a mile across, just to the east of the overpass. This became known as Merrill's Beach and with the help of one of Pocomoke City's civic organizations it was maintained for a number of years as a popular local swimming and bathing area. Merrill's Beach eventually had to close because Health Department water standards could not be maintained.

　　

December, 1967

Pocomoke City residents were remembering retired long time Market Street merchant L. Griffin Callahan who passed away at age 71. He had owned and operated Callahan's Ladies Shop; he was a charter member and past president of the Pocomoke Lions Club and had served several times as Commander of American Legion Worcester Post 93.

　　

August, 1892

(The Daily News- Frederick, Md)

A stranger who attempted to introduce politics into a Farmer's Alliance meeting in Worcester County was surrounded by the Snow Hill Brass Band and blown off the stump.

　　

　

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TIME MACHINE Preview ... An Eastern Shore Banquet!

　
The Banquet- 1914 ... "nearly every dish served will carry the name of the county it represents."

1887 (Eastern Shore food) ... "The choicest things of life flourish here with a luxuriance that few, if any sections of the country can match."

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"Community Giving Garden" Work Day

"COMMUNITY GIVING GARDEN" WORK DAY

SUNDAY, JUNE 17, 2012 / 4:00 PM

Location: Corner of Willow and Clarke Avenues

Downtown Pocomoke City, Md.

Building raised beds in the community garden. Bring gloves, shovels, hammers, etc.

For more info contact: Neelam Strom @ 443-437-7203;
or Norma Howard @ 410-726-0066

~BRING YOUR DAD~

Sponsored by the City of Pocomoke and supported by W T Brittingham Inc, Crop Production Services, Miles Lumber, and friends & family

Pocomoke City Mayor and Council Meeting

A G E N D A

POCOMOKE CITY MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEETING

7:30 p.m., Monday, June 18, 2012

City Hall

1. Call to Order, Prayer and Pledge of Allegiance.

2. Review and approval of minutes from meeting of June 5, 2012.

3. Review and approval of bills to be paid.

4. Second Reading of Res. 461 to adopt the City budget for fiscal year 2012-2013.

5. Second Reading of Res. 462 to adopt the tax rates for various categories of real and personal property for fiscal year 2012-2013.

6. Second Reading of Res. 463 to adopt the schedule of fees and charges for fiscal year 2012-2013.

7. Presentation by representatives of Opto Traffic regarding speed cameras.

8. Representatives of Save the Youth Program to discuss future plans.

9. Review report from consultant Ron Hamblin concerning condition of building at 124 Willow Street. (Lawson’s Bar)

10. Second Reading of Ord. 409 to regulate the types of furniture that may be placed on open porches and other outside areas.

12. Authorize bids for purchase of radio read water meters. (MDE Grant project)

13. Review bids for demolition of fire damaged house at 621 Young Street (Allen Blount, owner).

11. Review letter from Delmarva Discovery Center requesting loan funds.

14. Discuss vacancies on list of Boards and Commissions.

15. Review proposed mailer and application for ambulance department memberships.

Comments from the Audience.

Mayor and Council Items.

Adjourn.

AGENDAS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE UNTIL THE TIME OF CONVENING.

Va. Woman Charged After Hoax Rape Allegation

This is what she believed her rapist looked like.

Written by

Ted Shockley

Staff Writer

CAPE CHARLES -- A Northampton County woman has been charged with falsely reporting she was raped on the Cape Charles beachfront, an allegation that triggered a lengthy investigation and manhunt.

Suzanna Bowen, 20, of Exmore, was charged with making a false report, a Class 1 misdemeanor, said Cape Charles Police Chief Charles Brown. She was arrested Monday and released on bond.

Bowen apparently alleged she was sexually assaulted March 23 at about 6:30 p.m. on the north end of the town's public Chesapeake Bay beach. It was reported to police at about 11 p.m. that day.

Laboratory tests were ordered and the police department received the help of a sketch artist who made a drawing of the suspect based on details from the victim.

At one time, the entire town police force was involved in the ensuing investigation. Two officers coordinated the inquiry and a Sheriff's Office investigator assisted.

By May, Brown's investigation determined that no sexual assault had happened.

"It was a false report," he said this week.

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NASA Rocket Launch Scheduled June 21/Wallops Flight Facility

Seventeen educational experiments will fly June 21 on a Terrier- Improved Orion suborbital sounding rocket from NASA’s Launch Range at the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

The experiments built by university instructors and students from across the country were developed through programs conducted with the Colorado and Virginia and Space Grant Consortia. The programs are designed to provide participants an introduction in building small experiments that can be launched on sounding rockets.

Based on the approved range schedule, the rocket is set for launch between 6 and 10 a.m. EDT. The backup launch days are June 22 and 23. The rocket will be visible to residents in the Wallops region. The NASA Visitor Center will open at 5 a.m. on launch day for viewing the launch.

The launch will be webcast beginning at 5 a.m. on launch day at: http://sites.wff.nasa.gov/webcast or on USTREAM at: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasa_wallops.

Launch status can be followed on Twitter at: http://www.twitter.com/NASA_Wallops and Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/NASAWFF.

Launch status also is available at the Wallops launch status line at 757-824-2050.

For more information about the Student Workshops, click here.

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Judge Gives Man 3 Days In Jail For Wearing Saggy Pants in Court

Lorain, OH (WEWS) — His droopy drawers have landed a Lorain man in jail.

Lorain Municipal Court Judge Mark Mihok held Durrell Brooks in contempt of court Thursday because Brooks’ pants were riding so low, his underwear was showing. He then ordered him jailed for three days.

“I think he was a little shocked and upset,” Mihok said by phone.

Brooks was attending a hearing with a woman who was facing a traffic violation for a May car crash, when he approached the bench to tell Judge Mihok that he had insurance on the car Jackson was driving.

Mihok said when Brooks turned around, he could clearly see the exposed underwear and ordered him arrested.

Mihok said the incident with Brooks was the third time in the past month he has sent someone to jail for problems with the way they were dressed. Those two people had been warned by court security to pull their pants up before entering the courtroom and when their underwear was still showing when they came in, Mihok sent them to jail.

Mihok said every day, court security has to deal with men wearing their pants too low.

“Some even come in in their jail outfits and put their jail pants low trying to show their friends and relatives that they’re a tough guy,” Mihok said.

He said the issue is not just a matter of decorum, but he wants all those who come into his courtroom, including the elderly and teenagers, to feel safe.

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Maryland State Police Investigate Death of a Delaware Woman

(Whaleyville, MD) – Investigators from the Maryland State Police Homicide Unit are investigating the murder of a woman found in an embankment off of a dirt road in Worcester County.

The victim is identified as Nicole Bennett, 35, of the 33,000 block of Windswept Drive in Millsboro, Delaware. Bennett was found deceased and lying in an embankment off of a dirt road in Worcester County, in an area where there are no homes in the immediate vicinity. Bennett’s body has been transported to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Baltimore for an autopsy. The cause of death has not yet been determined.

Shortly before 9:00 a.m. today, Worcester Central received a 9-1-1 call reporting the body of an unidentified woman found deceased on Swamp Road, a dirt road east of Nelson Road. The caller told police he was in the area walking when he noticed the woman’s body lying in an embankment which slopes downward from the roadway.

During the course of the initial investigation, police learned Bennett was the subject of a missing person’s case being investigated by the Delaware State Police. Bennett’s husband had called 9-1-1 at about 8:00 a.m. this morning reporting his wife missing after not coming home from work the night before.

According to the missing person report and family members, Bennett had a rose tattoo on the inside of her right ankle. The woman found in the embankment had the same rose tattoo as verified by Delaware State Police and Bennett’s family.

A family member told police they had last heard from Bennett on the night of June 14, 2012. At this time, a monetary reward is being offered to anyone with information leading to the arrest of the individual(s) responsible for Bennett’s murder. Calls are being taken by the Worcester County Lower Eastern Shore Crime Solvers at 410-548-1776. Calls will remain confidential.

Deputies from the Worcester County Sheriff’s Office, investigators from the Worcester County Bureau of Investigation, Delaware State Police and the Maryland State Police Homicide Unit responded to the scene. Crime scene technicians from the Maryland State Police Forensic Sciences Division responded to gather evidence. The Worcester County State’s Attorney’s Office, the Wicomico County Bureau of Investigation, and the Worcester County Bureau of Investigation have also been assisting with the investigation.

As of this update, Maryland law enforcement is taking the lead on this case. Delaware State Police are assisting in the investigation. Police are interviewing suspects while the investigation continues...

Random Photos From the Cypress Festival 2012

37th Annual Cypress Festival

Pocomoke City, Maryland

2012

The New Pocomoke Restaurant...Just a Little More Time

The New Pocomoke City Restaurant

Downtown Pocomoke City, Maryland

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

If you've been downtown within the past few days you would have noticed the beautiful landscaping that has been done around the restaurant.

Just a few short weeks ago the brick pavers had just arrived and workers were busy at the job of arranging the walkways and tamping the bricks into place. Now all the mud that has been there all these weeks is coverd with grass and attractive shrubs and foliage outline the building.

Even the area below the Delmarva Discovery Center got some special attention!

Who's responsible for all this magnificent landscaping??
Douglas Guns, the Superintendent of the Winters Quarters Golf Course, and his marvelous crew along with Pocomoke City Public Works crew!! Along with the landscaping they paved an area next to the drawbridge so the Pocomoke Vol. Fire Co. can access a dry hydrant located on the docks.

Beautiful job!

Another good indication that it won't be long before many of us will be dining in the new restaurant and enjoying the view of the Pocomoke River. I will keep you posted on any updates.

National Flag Week /4

NATIONAL FLAG WEEK

CYPRESS PARK

POCOMOKE CITY, MARYLAND

The only time a flag should be allowed to twist and turn is when it dances in the wind.B



What you may not know:

Superintendent Bill East of the Dept. of Public Works for Pocomoke City along with his crew are responsible for the large flag in Cypress Park and the flags displayed along the sidewalk in downtown Pocomoke City.

Bill tries to keep two flags on hand at all times in case one becomes damaged. He tries to make sure the flag has been taken down when high winds are predicted so there will be no damage to the flag or the pole. But Eastern Shore weather is not always pretictable and it's not always convenient to lower a 20' x 30' American flag under any circumstances. Flags of this size are pricey Bill and his crew, because of their special care for the flag, are helping to save the city tax dollars and always making sure that we are able to enjoy the greatest symbol of our country.

Thanks Bill! And thank you to your crew of great workers who make sure the American flag is protected. It is always the first thing I look for when I am downtown...before the red light!

New Church Man Convicted Of Drugs and Weapons Charges

By

Connie Morrison

Terrell Charles Thomas, of New Church, was convicted in Accomack County Circuit Court of drug and weapons charges. The charges stem from an incident in November 2011 during which members of the Eastern Shore Drug Task Force attempted to stop Mr. Thomas after receiving information by telephone about possible drug activity.

According to those officers, Mr. Thomas attempted to elude them and instead ended up in the median of US13 just south of Ts Corner. Mr. Thomas left the vehicle on foot, crossed north-bound traffic on US13, and ran between two buildings. Officers pursued on foot, and were able to apprehend Mr. Thomas. They then recovered two loaded 22-caliber pistols that Mr. Thomas had discarded during the chase, and recovered crack cocaine from Mr. Thomass Lexus.

The defense attempted to show that the cocaine did not belong to Mr. Thomas, arguing that he had purchased the vehicle less than 48 hours before the incident, and did not know the drugs were in the vehicle. Judge Frederick Lowe, however, found that the Commonwealth had met its burden of proof and found Mr. Thomas guilty. He was remanded to jail to await sentencing in this case and in another case of cocaine possession for which he was convicted in February.

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